Iona
Monastery · 565 · Iona
Columba's island house, from which Aidan and the Northumbrian mission came. Bede dates its founding to the year Columba crossed from Ireland, and treats it as the mother of the northern houses.
The year is the source’s own.
Who
- Columba Founder · 565–597 · Bede has him come into Britain in 565 and the house is his; the end year is his death, not a recorded resignation.
Where
- Iona the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other monastery houses
- Monte Cassino about 529 (Gardner, 1911 — not Gregory) · Abbey of Monte Cassino
- Clonmacnoise 547 · Clonmacnoise
- Lindisfarne 635 (the edition’s margin; Bede does not date it) · Lindisfarne
- Streaneshalch two years after Bede’s own 655 · Whitby Abbey
- Bercingum before 674, the edition’s date for Earconwald’s consecration · Barking Abbey
- Kellia no year is recorded · Kellia
- The Monastery of the Caves no year is recorded · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- Nitria no year is recorded · Nitria
- Sublacum no year is recorded · Subiaco
After Ecclesiastical History of the English People · HE III.4 (a.d. 565).